Alibaba Cloud has created an English language version of Modelscope, its models-as-service offering. Modelscope was launched in 2022 and is broadly comparable to services like Amazon Web Services' Bedrock or Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Studio. All are essentially libraries of foundation models from a variety of sources, offered in a form designed to ease the job of plumbing them into apps built on their respective cloudy hosts. Alibaba Cloud claims it has won over five million developers as users o...